Seven brilliantly colored Papilio polyxenes have setup shop here in our garden

Seven brilliantly colored Papilio polyxenes have setup shop here in our garden.

The chickens absolutely will not eat them. Reading up about them in wikipedia, I found out that they extract toxins from plants to ward off predators. The chickens know this!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papilio_polyxenes

Originally posted on Facebook on May 25, 2014.